Irascibility
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Passionate · irascibility · irascible · the Irascible
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
The vice of excess in respect of anger, opposed to Gentleness.
These states are virtually without names, but as we call a person of the middle character gentle, let us name the observance of the mean Gentleness, while of the extremes, he that exceeds may be styled irascible and his vice Irascibility, and he that is deficient, spiritless, and the deficiency Spiritlessness.
The excessively quick-tempered are Passionate;
There are then first the Irascible, who get angry quickly and with the wrong people and for the wrong things and too violently, but whose anger is soon over.
On Virtues and Vices
The vice of the spirited part, opposite of gentleness
There are three kinds of irascibility:
the vices of the spirited part are irascibility and cowardice;
Irascibility is the vice of the spirited part, by which men are easily moved to anger.